W. Boyd Jackson

W. Boyd Jackson is counsel in the firm's Health Law Practice Group. Boyd advises clients across the health care industry on regulatory, legislative, and policy matters, bringing a distinctive combination of government, private practice, and academic experience to his work.

Prior to joining the firm, Boyd served as Director of Legislation and Regulation at the Connecticut Office of Health Strategy. In that role, he oversaw the agency’s legal and policy teams and directed the Certificate of Need (CON) program. He advised the Commissioner on a wide range of legal matters, including government contracts, CON decisions, statutory authority, administrative procedures, federal preemption and civil enforcement actions. Boyd led significant health policy development and advocacy initiatives, including reforms and enhancements of the state's CON review process, Health Information Exchange, and Health Care Benchmark Initiative. He also led the first major revision of Connecticut's Health Care Facilities and Services Plan and Inventory.

Before his time at the Office of Health Strategy, Boyd served as Health Policy Counsel for the DC Council Committee on Health, where he led the legislative process for legislation governing the District's health insurance providers, including matters related to copayment accumulator programs, mandatory coverage of infertility treatments, prior authorization reform, continuous Medicaid coverage for children under the age of six and Medicaid coverage for home visiting services.

Boyd began his legal career as a Health Care Regulatory Associate at Hogan Lovells, LLP in Washington, DC, where he gained extensive experience in federal health care regulation and policy. He analyzed coding, coverage and reimbursement matters for innovative drugs, biologics and medical devices, and performed health care regulatory diligence for corporate transactions involving health care providers and related entities. Boyd also has litigation experience, having drafted motions and prepared expert witnesses in hospital and insurance reimbursement litigation.

Boyd draws on deep academic training in health policy and economics. He earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he served as an Editor of the Stanford Law and Policy Review, received the Gerald Gunther Prize for Outstanding Performance in Statutory Interpretation, and served as President of the BioLaw and Health Policy Society. He earned his B.A. in Economics from Yale University, where he served as a Research Assistant to Professor Elizabeth Bradley on The American Health Care Paradox at the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute. Boyd completed his doctoral coursework and advanced to candidacy for a Ph.D. in Health Policy and Management, with a focus on Political Economics of Healthcare, at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was been recognized with the E. Richard Brown Social Justice Award and served as a Fellow of the Clinical Translational Science Institute, a Teaching Fellow in Microeconomic Theory of the Health Sector, and a Research Fellow at the Center for Health Advancement. He continues to research and work toward completion of his dissertation.